David K. Hensley is the Executive Director of the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center and a Clinical Professor in the Henry B. Tippie College of Business at The University of Iowa.  David provides strategic leadership for enterprise leadership and entrepreneurship activities across the UI campus, teaches at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and is actively engaged in providing business and technology commercialization consulting services to UI students, faculty and community entrepreneurs.  Outside of his university activities, David has over 30 years’ experience in business, consulting, and strategic management; he has provided start-up and management consulting services to several companies throughout the Midwest.  He also serves on several university and community entrepreneurship, venture financing, and economic development boards.  David is President of his own company and has been involved in several Iowa start-ups over the past decade. 

Areas of Interest

• Entrepreneurial Strategies
• Feasibility and Business Planning
• Small Business Finance

Professional Memberships

• Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization, 2016
• Sigma Nu Tau, 2015
• Midwest Engineering Entrepreneurship Network, 2013
• United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 2010
• Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, 2004

Selected Awards and Honors

• Top 25 national undergraduate entrepreneurship program ranking, Princeton Review/Entrepreneur Magazine, 2013
• The University of Iowa undergraduate entrepreneurship program is ranked among the top 25 nationally recognized academic programs by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine., 2010
• President's State Outreach Award, University of Iowa Office of the President, 2007
• Collegiate Teaching Award, Henry B. Tippie College of Business, 2005
• The UI's undergraduate program in entrepreneurship was recognized as the 2004 National Model Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, USASBE, 2004
• The University of Iowa was ranked as the 9th Most Entrepreneurial Campus by Forbes.com and The Princeton Review., 2004